1.   Labour politicians have spent most of their working lives promising to protect press freedom.

2.   Making the right choices, like protecting freedom, demands eternal vigilance.

3.   The First Amendment protects freedom of speech, and therefore allows for political, economic, and scientific progress.

4.   Today the descendants of the early settlers, and those who have joined them since,are fighting to protect these freedoms at home and throughout the world.

5.   At Segodnya, meanwhile, reporters were defiant, determined to protect their freedom, regardless of how limited it may be.

6.   A new federal law aims to protect religious freedom, and it may give churches more muscle when they want to build or expand in cities across the country.

7.   A similar commission charged with protecting freedom of the press and of publishing was even less effective.

8.   But critics say it does nothing to protect that freedom.

9.   But Judge Leonard Sand ruled that the articles were protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution, which protects freedom of speech.

10.   But members of minority factions often welcome the monarchies as buffers that protect existing freedoms.